The four RS-25 engines slated to fly on the maiden flight of NASA’s SLS rocket, at the company’s facility at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Aerojet Rocketdyne Lockheed Martin intends to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne at a $4.6 billion equity value, a deal that adds rocket engine and spacecraft propulsion assets to the defense contractor as it
England has been put on notice for a New Year lockdown after the government’s chief scientific adviser demanded a massive extension of Tier 4 restrictions. With the new variant now surging across the UK, an announcement that large areas of England will join London and parts of southeast England in Tier 4 is expected on
Russia on Monday successfully test-launched its heavy lift Angara A5 space rocket for the second time, the country’s military and space officials said. The rocket lifted off Monday morning from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northwest Russia. “It flies, damn it!” Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, tweeted after the launch. Еще больше видео!
British broadcaster ITV has dropped a regular Coronation Street director after he wrote a series of Facebook posts undermining concerns about systemic diversity problems in the UK television industry. Steve Finn’s Facebook missives were spotted by HuffPost UK and were posted during the week of the Edinburgh TV Festival in August, when diversity was at
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks on stage during Facebook session at the Cannes Lions 2019 : Day Three on June 19, 2019 in Cannes, France. Richard Bord | Getty Images Google and Facebook pledged to help one another if they ever faced an investigation into their pact to work together in online advertising,
Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner in Disney Pixar’s “Soul.” Disney Pixar has done it again. The Academy Award-winning studio owned by Disney is set to release its latest triumph on the company’s streaming service on Christmas Day. “Soul,” the 23rd feature from Pixar, centers around Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a music teacher with dreams of
The new strain of coronavirus has changed everything. If you took away anything else from from today’s low-key business-as-normal prime ministerial press conference, you shouldn’t have done. Expectations which were being set just a week ago have been upended, plans everywhere from the Treasury to the Department for Education are being rewritten and the start
Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images Shares of IAC jumped more than 10% Tuesday after the company announced it’s spinning off its full stake in its video software company, Vimeo. Following completion of the deal, which is expect to close in the second quarter of 2021, Vimeo will become an
Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 45 years. The Chang’e probe is expected to land in the Siziwang district of the vast Inner Mongolia region late Wednesday or early Thursday. It fired
“I don’t even know if I’ve been able to compute how it makes me feel, the fact that our industry is at a complete standstill… 170,000 people out of work, it seems to be completely undigestible to me.” Katie Melua’s words have lingered with me for weeks since interviewing her in an eerily empty Royal
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early Thursday in the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples, the Xinhua news agency said. The return module of the space probe known as Chang’e-5 landed in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, Xinhua said, quoting the China
EXCLUSIVE: The CW is set to premiere All American Stories, a new docuseries inspired by athletes who have defied the odds to achieve their goals. Co-hosted by Pac-12 Network’s Yogi Roth, who also executive produces, and former NFL player Spencer Paysinger, whose life story inspired The CW’s hit series All American, All American Stories will
In this photo illustration of the ripple cryptocurrency ‘altcoin’ sits arranged for a photograph on April 25, 2018 in London, England. Jack Taylor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Ripple, the fintech company best known for cryptocurrency XRP, has said it expects to be sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that
Friday Night Dinner star Rosalind Knight, whose stage and screen career spanned more than six decades, has died at the age of 87. Known to younger audiences as Horrible Grandma in the Channel 4 comedy, she will also be remembered for her roles in the early Carry On films. Appearing in Carry On Teacher and
MGM has tapped two investment banks and started a formal sale process, looking to generate heat from Hollywood studios, international conglomerates, private equity firms and the growing multitude of SPACS, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter. Here’s what Deadline hears. The private company has mulled a sale for
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says widespread, national use of an efficacious vaccine this spring and early summer could allow Broadway to retake the stage by late summer or early fall. In an interview with NBC New York’s David Ushery last night, Fauci was asked when Broadway
Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s Native American comedy Reservation Dogs has been handed a series order at FX. This comes after the half-hour project, which follows four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma who spend their days committing crime … and fighting it, shot a pilot in Okmulgee, OK. The pilot was written by Barking Water
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a new tool that would help L.A. County residents be more cautious amid the dark periods of the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday Garcetti unveiled a new interactive map of Los Angeles that would provide Angelenos will real time information about infection rates and deaths in varying neighborhoods. In addition
Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris and New York Theatre Workshop – the Off Broadway company where he developed the acclaimed work – announced today the establishment of two $50,000 commissions for new theatrical works, keeping a pledge the author made when he signed a two-year overall deal with HBO last March. The inaugural Golden
The Chicago Film Critics Association has revealed its 2020 film awards, with Nomadland winning five trophies including Best Picture, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and a Director & Adapted Screenplay double for Chloé Zhao. The late Chadwick Boseman picked up the Best Actor prize for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, with the Supporting Actor nod going to Paul